Nut-shaving machine



H. ANDERSON.

NUT SHAVING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN- 12. i918.

, 'Patentd May 4, 1920.

INVENTQR HOMER ANDERSON, 0F PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK.

NUT-SHAVIN'G MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 4, 1920.

Application filed January 17,- 1918.: Serial No. 212,206.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HOMER ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States, andresident of Peekskill, in the county of Westchester and State of NewYork, have invented a Niit- Shaving Machine, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to the preparation of nuts for food, and itsobject is the reduction of' nuts to thin slices or shavings, the objectbeing attained by the means set forth in this specification and theaccompanying drawings.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of the nut shaver. Fig. 2is a side elevation of the nut shaver. Fig. 3 shows the upper part ofthe machine, with the hopper in lateral section. Fig. 4 is a plan of thehopper. Fig. 5 is a detail relating to the shaving knife. Fig. 6 showsin cross section a stamped out cutter disk.

The form of the machine herein shown is for domestic use, adapted to beclamped to a table. Larger machines to be driven by power are made uponpractically the same plans except as to the c amping standard.

There is nothing new in the standarda in its clamping devices I), c andd. The standard ends in a hub e, and integral with the standard and thehub isa circular disk 7. The top of the disk has an upward flangeextension g. A hopper h is secured to the reverse side of the disk andflange by screws as at z, or otherwise.

An opening 7' is provided in the disk, Figs. 2 and 3, which is theoutlet from the hopper. The sides of the hopper are straight, as at kFigs. 3 and 4, while its bottom is arc-formed, givingI an interior spacelonger than it is deep. ear the front upper corner of the hopper a sweepZ is pivoted, as at m m in the sides of the hopper. Outside of thehopper the sweep is provided with a lever handle n. Inside of the hopperthe sweep moves in an arc eccentric to the bottom of the hopper, asindicated by the broken line position of the sweep shown at 2 Fig. 2.

A shaft 0 has bearing in the hub e, the shaft carrying a disk p fast tothe shaft, here shown to be secured by a screw-nut 9. On the end of theshaft is a crank 1 and handle 7'', the crank being secured to the shaftby a thumb-screw t. The disk 10, Fig. 1, is provided with knives u setangularly with respect to the radii of the disk. For each knife aslot'vis provided through the disk. In Fig. 5 is a section of the diskp, showing the V slot into which the knife projects, the

slot and the knife forming a throat like that Y in a carpenters plane.It will be observed that the knife edge extends just a trifle beyondtheface of the disk, not more in practice than one or two thousandths of aninch, the length of the projection determining the thiclmess of the nutshaving.

As shown in Fig. 2 the fixed disk f is slightly recessed as at y. Therotating disk 19 is straight on its face, and bears on the edge 3 thatis formed by the recess y. The projections of the knives travel withinthat recess, and make contact with nothing but what they may be cutting.The edge 3/ prevents particles of nuts working out sidewise between thetwo disks.

In cutting, the nuts are pressed through the opening against therotating disk, and the revolving knives cut ofl slices from the nuts inpassing. Fig. 3 shows a disk adapted for twelve knives and that four ofthem would be cutting simultaneously. Fig. 1 shows six knives, and withsix, two would always be in action.

As the machines are small, enough nuts cannot be put into the hopper toafford weight enough to feed the nuts against the knives hence, thesweep Z. By means of the handle n the nuts are pushed forward by thesweep, and when the sweep has gone to its limit toward the knives,raising the sweep allows the nuts to fall below it, and in this mannerthe nuts are fed against the knives. That is why the sweep is made tomove eccentric with the bottom of the hoper. Otherwise the raising ofthe sweep would throw the nuts out of the hopper.

In the construction shown the nuts fall freely on each side of thesweep. One hand of the operator can keep the crank turning and the otherhand can keep the hopper supplied and the sweep in motion. The cuttingby the machine is both easy and rapid.

The rotating disk piece, by punching from a plate of steel and settingout the cutting edges in a die, as indicated in Fig. 6.

As the rotation of the disk p tends to throw the nut shavings sidewisefrom the machine, a guard m, Figs. 1, and 2 and 3, is provided, shown tobe integral with the disk 7, though not necessarily so, that surcan bemade in one rounds the rotating disk and terminates in a spout n.Whenneedful to clean the machine, removing the crank 1" permits thewithdrawal of the shaft and disk 1), when the various parts of themachine are all ac-' cessible.

Every kind of nut can be handled in this machine, and it puts nuts in aform for food that has not heretofore been accomplished.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

1. In a nut shaving machine the combination with the shaving devices ofa feeding hopper, a bottom to the hopper curving from the top to-itsjunction with the body of the machine, a sweep hinged within the forwardtop of the hopper, the end of the sweep moving in a circle eccentric tothe bottom of the hopper, and a sweep operating handle outside of thehopper.

2. In a machine for shaving nuts, a frame the rotating disk having itsouterfaceedge bearing against the rim on the fixed disk forming a recessbetween the two disks, a feeding hopper attached to the fixeddisk, andan open apron flange integral with the fixed disk and projecting beyondthe 'rotating disk forming a spout terminal at the bottom.

Signed at Peekskill, in the county of Westchester and State of New York,this 14:"v day of January, 1918.

HOMER ANDERSON.

Witnesses DOUGLAS 'DE F. ANDERSON, WILLIAM F. CHASE.

